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Campus & Community

Maxwell blood drive

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

The Center for Policy Research at the Maxwell School will host a blood drive on Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Schine Student Center, Room 304 ABC. To schedule an appoitment to donate please contact…

Campus & Community

Scholarship opportunities for STEM majors

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

Through the Natinoal Science Foundatinos’s Robert Noyce Program and joint efforts between the College of Arts and Sciences and School of Education, significant funding is available for qualified undergraduates in STEM majors. Undergraduate scholarship of up to $10,000 per year…

Campus & Community

Conversations in Conflict Studies: The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

Wednesday, Nov. 7, noon-1 p.m. Where: 400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Conference Room Pizza will be served. The Two Row Wampum Campaign is a statewide educational and advocacy campaign organized by the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation/Syracuse…

Campus & Community

ecoarttech: ‘wilderness 24/7’

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

Founded in 2005 by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint, ecoarttech is an art/theory collaborative that explores environmental issues and convergent media from an interdisciplinary perspective. For their upcoming exhibition “wilderness 24/7” at The Warehouse Gallery, ecoarttech has…

Campus & Community

College Republicans bring Steve Forbes to speak Monday, Nov. 5

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

The College Republicans will bring Steve Forbes to speak on Monday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. in Grant Auditorium. His lecture is titled “How Capitalism Will Save Us.” Under his leadership at Forbes Inc., Forbes Magazine has grown into the…

Media, Law & Policy

Smart kids, visual stories

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

The first thing the kids noticed was the glass. Walking through the halls of Newhouse 3 in the first year of their participation in the “Smart Kids, Visual Stories” project, students from Syracuse city school Levy K-8 couldn’t fathom how the university felt so comfortable allowing so much exposed glass.

Arts & Culture

New group exhibition at XL Projects explores notion of the habitual

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By Erica Blust

“Habitual” includes work by City Meditation Crew and VPA students Emily Dunlap, Lily Fein, Nicholas Krapf, Cayla Lockwood, Joel Weissman and Jian Zhong.

Campus & Community

ELI staff members participate on panel

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

English Language Institute associate director Deborah McGraw, language coordinator Maureen Edmonds and instructor Steve Foulkrod were invited to participate on a panel entitled “Multi-linguals in Academic Discourse II” as part of a two-day symposium.  The Multi-lingual Mind: Language Development and…

STEM

Engineers study how contaminated soil can be drained, utilized

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

LCS research published in Geosynthetics International Each year, 400 million cubic yards of soil are dredged from water bodies in the United States alone. Much of this byproduct is contaminated, deemed unusable and put into landfills. Mahmoud M. Khachan, Shobha…

Arts & Culture

Journey to success is topic of next African American Studies 2012 Colloquium series

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

National political commentator and scholar Adolphus Belk Jr. ’97 will present “How I Got Over: Lessons from One Man’s Journey to Success,” 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in 219Sims Hall. The lecture is part of the 2012 Fall Colloquium series…